Once I’ve taken the time to figure out the opportunity costs of particular scenarios and a decision regarding direction has been made, I start breaking down what needs to happen to get from here to there. —————— A valuable lesson I learned while working on my Master’s Thesis is how to break down a large […]
Requirements Management in the Ecosystem
TOGAF encourages the use of a requirements repository. We don’t have one. So I need to build one. Somehow. The initial reaction the business analysts had when I asked what format they use for requirements and told them of my plans to consolidate them into a searchable library was…. “Why would you do that?” Well…. […]
TOGAF – The Preliminary Stage In Practice
This is the official description of how the Preliminary Stage works. This is what this phase feels like….. ——————— In my spare time (around projects and the job I am supposed to be doing), I am gathering all the things. The tools and applications we have lying around the shop – both stuff we currently […]
Guerrilla Change Management in Action
I figured I would provide a concrete example of what Guerilla Change Management looks like in action. Basically – giving away all of my state secrets 🙂 ——— This project has the following problems / issues that need to be solved. 1) This is a major assumption shift. We are asking people to think about […]
